Spooker Trouper: ABBA Voyage, Virtual Humans and the Rise of the Digital Apparition

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE PARAGRAPH Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.3366/para.2023.0427
J. Ng, Nick Bax
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This article analyses the ‘live’ virtual human in ABBA Voyage, the long-awaited concert reunion of the Swedish pop group ABBA, via Vilém Flusser’s concept of the digital apparition. It first argues for these virtual performers (dubbed ‘ABBA-tars’) to be understood as externalized computational codes which shift the grounds of ownership over and consent to the use of one’s likeness. They are also key to disproportionate and as yet unaccountable power held by technology companies. Secondly, ABBA Voyage’s presentation of ABBA as their past selves places time in a capitalism of immateriality profiting from the protean temporality of bodies. This temporal discombobulation thwarts finitude and confounds time in meanings of life, death and growth. The article thus addresses urgent confrontations between actual and virtual humans placed in the same physical environment, and paves the way for thinking about how we are going to deal and live with their virtuality.
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Spooker剧团:ABBA之旅、虚拟人和数字幻影的兴起
本文通过Vilém Flusser的数字幻影概念,分析了瑞典流行组合ABBA期待已久的演唱会重聚ABBA Voyage中的“现场”虚拟人。它首先主张将这些虚拟表演者(被称为“ABBA tars”)理解为外部化的计算代码,将所有权和同意使用肖像的理由转移到使用肖像上。它们也是科技公司拥有不成比例且至今不负责任的权力的关键。其次,ABBA Voyage将ABBA描述为他们过去的自我,将时间置于从身体多变的时间性中获利的非物质资本主义中。这种时间上的混乱阻碍了有限性,混淆了生命、死亡和成长意义上的时间。因此,这篇文章解决了处于同一物理环境中的真实人和虚拟人之间的紧急对抗,并为思考我们将如何处理和生活他们的虚拟性铺平了道路。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1983, Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory. It publishes essays and review articles in English which explore critical theory in general and its application to literature, other arts and society. Regular special issues by guest editors highlight important themes and figures in modern critical theory.
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